Who are the starting 8 position players and who is in the starting pitching rotation after the trade deadline?
I’m going to cheat a little and make it September rather than August. As I said in connection with another question, I think there’s a good chance the Pirates will be at least in fringy contention in late July. It’ll surprise me if they’re big sellers at the deadline, so I’m going to assume that, at most, they trade Ivan Nova.
Also, we saw last year that Clint Hurdle waited until September before he moved on from soon-to-depart veterans (mainly John Jaso and Chris Stewart) to players with a future in Pittsburgh (Elias Diaz and Jordan Luplow).